Leonel Couto

Leonel Couto (died September 1719) was a Portuguese Navy officer and the captain of Nosso Senhor da Compreensao, a heavily-armed man o' war. In 1719, Couto's ship was anchored off the Yucatan Peninsula along with several other Portuguese vessels, and the pirate Edward Kenway snuck aboard the ship with the goal of taking it over. Couto was slain by Kenway in the ensuing fight, and Bartholomew Roberts would take the ship as his own and renamed it as Royal Fortune.